cursor

Mane (Îngilîzî)

Noun

1. A part of any of several scientific or measuring instruments that moves back and forth to indicate a position.
2. A moving icon or other representation, usually called a pointer, of the position of the pointing device.
3. An indicator, often a blinking line or bar, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place.
4. A reference to a row of data in a table, which moves from row to row as data is retrieved by way of it.
5. A design pattern in object oriented methodology in which a collection is iterated uniformly.

Verb

To navigate by means of the cursor keys.

Têgeh

mîl

Hevwate

pointer

runner

🏃

rotor arm

Werger

curseur

cursor

Cursor

cursor

cursore

cursor

imleç

Schreibmarke

δρομέας

cursor

lancetta

✋

Positionsmarke

Mauszeiger

مؤشر

Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin

/kɜɹsəɹ/

Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

Borrowed from Latin cursor (“runner”), from currō (“run”) + -or (agentive suffix). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.